Anyone thinking of getting the Intel i7 11700k this week?

[jib]

I am building a new gaming PC this month (mainly just play DCS and Total War) and was going to get the 10th gen Intel i7 10700k for £280 but as the 11th Gen Intel i7 11700k is out this week I'm sort of tempted but it is £110 more. It is going to be paired with a my current GPU a RTX 2060 and 32GB 3600mhz RAM.

 

Early leaked units of the i7 11700k have show shockingly similar performance to the i7 10700k and even sometime worse in some games.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16535/intel-core-i7-11700k-review-blasting-off-with-rocket-lake/16

 

Maybe I will wait a few weeks until someone does a DCS benchmark (but I do want my new PC now!) , it will be interesting to see how it performs!

 

Edited March 28, 2021 by jib

[reece146]

If it were me I'd wait a week or two - rumour mill says big price cuts on 10700K in the next week or so.

 

11700K is not a compelling chip - I'd skip it.

 

$0.02

[agrasyuk]

instead of 11700K I just purchased a 10700K at a very nice discount this Friday (and MB+RAM to go with it). It's basically the same thing but without direct lanes for the SSD. If all of a sudden the 11th get proves to get few FPS more in DCS I will not be majorly upset

[McVittees]

My new 11600k cpu arrived today. I currently run a 3570k (!) so it won’t be anything but good for me, even if it’s a lame upgrade compared to more recent cpu releases eg 9700k/10700k/Ryzen 5600k. Doubt I’ll get more FPS but certainly will help keep what I get now more stable when lots going on.  Shame I doubt I’ll be able to upgrade from my gtx960 2gb anytime soon 

Edited April 15, 2021 by McVittees

[jskibo]

Thanks to the 11700 release grabbed a 10700k for $269, decent upgrade from the 8600k I had

[reece146]

Funny - in spite of "pooh-poohing" the 11700K above I just bought one.

 

But, the 10700k is staying in my DCS rig. The 11700k is going into one of my Linux workstations. I was eyeing the 10900k for this Linux machine but the 11700k seems to have similar multi-core performance as the 10900k AND it has a better, Xe based iGPU. That way I can slave the discrete GPU to a virtual machine and have the Linux host still be good enough for workstation tasks with Xe.

 

Use case and all that...

 

 

[jib]

I ended up getting the i5 11600kf instead of the i7 11700k because it was only 0.1 GHZ lower in turbo clock speed and DCS wouldn't use the extra 2 cores anyway and there was a £70 ($100) price difference for an imperceptible performance gain.

[AlpineGTA]

I've just bought an i5-11600K. It seemed to be recommended as all you need for a decent gaming PC. Either way, it should be an improvement on my current old i7-3770